Le Mouvement international anti-opium et l'Indochine, 1906-1940
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Abstract EN:
A historical study focusing ont the evolution in far estern countries of the concept of "opium as marchandise" toward that of "opium as a drug", in the modern sense of the term. The emergeance of the international anti-opium movement and its consequences on the political, diplomatic and social life of this geographical region will be examined. Indochina under french administration is seen as an example of a colonial economy dependant on this conceptual evolution. A new attitude toward drug use and the emergeance of the notion of public health and welfare are therefore contradictory to the rigid nature of the colonialists fiscal politics and to the ambiguities of their humanist discourse.
Abstract FR:
Etude historique retracant sur l'ensemble de l'extreme-orient l'evolution du concept opium marchandise a celui de drogue au sens moderne du terme. L'emergence du mouvement international anti-opium y est etudie dans ses consequences politiques,diplomatiques et sociales sur l'ensemble de l'aire geographique. L'indochine sous administration francaise y est l'exemple d'une economie coloniale dependant de cette evolution conceptuelle retracee par les ambiguites de sa politique fiscale face a l'evolution des mentalites et a l'emergence du concept de sante publique.